"my routine includes maybe around 70% weight lifting and 30% cardio. for years I have been this all-cardio guy with negligible lifting and then came along this trainer who is persistent on me getting habituated to more of lifting if I wanted to be on the course to building muscle."

As for dealing with loneliness, I'm an off-the-chart introvert. I answer the phone with "I'm busy" and immediately hang up. I answer the door with "Go Away." I answer mail with "Addressee Deceased;" I have a couple hundred pre=printed.

My brother has an answerphone message that is in butlerish very UK English. The phone rings: Butler answers and then says, with the other person still on the line, "Sir, it's XYZ, shall I tell him/her to ****-off?"